WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE:
Billy-Ray Belcourt made history as the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for his previous collection, This Wound is a World.
AWARD WINNING DEBUT COLLECTION:
Belcourt’s debut collection This Wound is a World was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It also won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.
LGBTQ POETRY:
As with his first book, NDN Coping Mechanisms will appeal not only to fans of raw, emotionally direct lyric and confessional poetry, but also to readers of contemporary ethnopoetics and queer literary theory.
THE NEW WAVE OF INDIGENOUS POETS:
Belcourt is among the leaders of a new wave of young and extremely talented and provocative group of Indigenous writers, a list that includes Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Katherena Vermette, Jason Stefanik, and Jordan Abel in Canada and Layli Long Soldier, Natalie Diaz, and Craig Santos Perez in the U.S.
WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE:
Billy-Ray Belcourt made history as the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for his previous collection, This Wound is a World.
AWARD WINNING DEBUT COLLECTION:
Belcourt’s debut collection This Wound is a World was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It also won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.
LGBTQ POETRY:
As with his first book, NDN Coping Mechanisms will appeal not only to fans of raw, emotionally direct lyric and confessional poetry, but also to readers of contemporary ethnopoetics and queer literary theory.
THE NEW WAVE OF INDIGENOUS POETS:
Belcourt is among the leaders of a new wave of young and extremely talented and provocative group of Indigenous writers, a list that includes Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Katherena Vermette, Jason Stefanik, and Jordan Abel in Canada and Layli Long Soldier, Natalie Diaz, and Craig Santos Perez in the U.S.